Dec. 2, 2002
7:51 p.m.
[Skip Montanaro]
What does the hostname(1) command return? By default I think it generates some oddball thing like "Montanaro.local.". Apple calls it a Rendevous name. (I've no idea what that is.) The fix for me was recommended by
Rendevous is Apple's implementation of IEEE's zero-conf. The "oddball" name is what is used for the local DNS entries used by Rendevous since it stores info by name instead of IP. -Brett